Architect_z wrote:
@Widge - Sounds good, just don't bother upgrading the drake sword, its ok for an early weapon, but look to upgrading something else, the drake sword doesnt last till the end of the game.

Good luck

Last time I grabbed a barbed sword which lasted me forever, fancy mixing it up in a magical style.

Ooh, I never used my barbed sword. Those BSSes were dropping like candy for me, so I often used those with my lighter characters, but I'm tempted by another playthrough with something different. How is it?

I only got so far with it as I took it to Chaos and then ran out of the ability to upgrade it! Seemed effective, and the bleed damage was quite a nice thing to have.

Upgrade things in different ways. So for example, red stuff will help with Fire and Chaos

Whereas white will do divine and occult

blue = magic + enchanted

and so on

When you've got some of each colour, check with the different blacksmiths to see what you could upgrade your weapon to. And blacksmiths differ in their ability - Andre only does a couple of paths, so you have to visit a different blacksmith for certain paths

quadfather wrote:
Upgrade things in different ways. So for example, red stuff will help with Fire and Chaos

Whereas white will do divine and occult

blue = magic + enchanted

and so on

When you've got some of each colour, check with the different blacksmiths to see what you could upgrade your weapon to. And blacksmiths differ in their ability - Andre only does a couple of paths, so you have to visit a different blacksmith for certain paths

Well I'm going standard path with my iaito, but I could do something interesting with my longbow maybe.

The thing about elemtlental upgrades though is that they remove the stat scaling. So while they look meaty, not much matches a +15 normal weapon with the required scaling stat pumped up to 40 + a buff like crystal magic weapon. Thats just destruction on a plate

But elemental weapon can decimate stuff too, especially if the enemies youre fighting are prone to the elemental damage